WPC11 v4 on SuSE

[Stasonis]

I jsut upgraded to SuSE 9.0 on my laptop, previously on RedHat 9. The main reasons being I didn't feel like attempting to get ACPI working with Redhat, and more then that, getting my Wireless card working. Well ACPI is working great, and I had high hopes for my Wireless card as well. I am using YaST to try and set it up. YAST sees the card, shows up as "Linksys Ethernet Controller" in the configuration tool. I'm using the WPC11 v4 by the way, I know, it's a headache to begin with. The problem is that YAST refuses to let it be set to a wireless card. It is setting it to eth-pcmcia and I have no ability to change it. Has anyone had this problem before?

Regards,
Chris

[Loki3]

I've never used SuSE or yast but I do know that your card uses the linux-wlan-ng drivers. You can acquire them or learn more about these particular drivers at http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ I don't know if SuSE has support for the linux-wlan-ng wireless devices by default. I'm guessing it doesn't. See if there's a package to get or maybe just compile them from source.

[hard candy]

The version 4 of that card uses a new realtek chipset, the previous versions used the prism chipset (they have a bad habit of switching chipsets just when the linux drivers get built just right), you may need the www.linuxant.com driver wrapper.